The civil and judicial organization from pre-unitary Italy to the laws of administrative and ligislative unification of 1865

In the years before the political Italian unification Italy was characterized by a very complicated situation where different political, cultural and economical circumstances coexisted. What’s more, there was a widespread particularism and different levels of social development. The only element of link in common was represented by the coding rules, that was considered to have a sort of primitive foundation role for the future Kingdom of Italy. This was made possible by the fact that Restoration, even if pursuing the adjustment of the Catholic-conservative ideological postulates, maintained a great part of the past law experience imported from Napoleonic France, forsaking the legislative pluralism of the medieval tradition. The administrative and legislative unification bills, issued by the Italian Parliament in 1865, sanctioned the definitive overcoming of the political particularism. Unfortunately it was not able to achieve a deep regeneration of the existing legal structures.